“Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?”
Letter to John Adams (7 May 1776)
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“Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.”
Letter to John Adams (5 August 1776)
“Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.”
Letter to John Adams (13 February 1779)
“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”
Letter to John Thaxter (29 September 1778)
“I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.”
Letter to John Adams (30 June 1778)
Letter to John Thaxter (15 February 1778)
Letter to John Quincy Adams (19 January 1780)
Cited in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657. <br class="br"> https://historicipswich.org/2022/01/18/abigail-adams-to-john-adams-all-men-would-be-tyrants-if-they-could/
“Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs, which treat us only as the vessels of your sex.”
Cited in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
